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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DOUGLASS F. MALTBY, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO VATERBURY BUTTON CO., OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPI-IIC MEDAL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,652, dated August 14, 1860.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, I). F. MALTBY, of W'aterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new article of manufacture which I term a Photographic Medal; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figures l, and 2, are views of the opposite faces of a photographic medal. Fig. 8, is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 4, is a transverse section of the medallic frame exhibiting it in its condition before the insertion of the photographic pictures.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists in a medal composed of a ring or plate of solid metal constituting a frame or rim of a medallic character surrounding a picture or pictures produced by photography.

The example of my invention represented contains two photographic pictures one being presented on each face of the medal. A, is the ring or circular plate of solid metal which constitutes the medallic frame having its marginal portion ornamented or inscribed in any desired or appropriate manner, and having a central circular cavity a, a, in each side for the reception of a photographic picture which may be a portrait or any other subject and a small raised rim b, surrounding such' cavity. This rim or plate is produced in suitable dies by a stampino press in the manner commonly practicec to produce medals and coins, and may or may not have a central opening c, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, but as it is easier to stamp it with such central opening I propose to have such an opening when there is to be a picture on each side to conceal it. d, cl, are the photographic pictures taken on sheetmet-al which has been suitably prepared, and afterward varnished with some durable varnish. These pictures are made of a size and form to lit snugly into the cavities a, a, and are secured therein by placing the ring or plate with the pictures in the said cavities, in a press and pressing the raised rim b, over the edges of the pictures.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The article which I have herein described and termed a photographic medal composed of a ring or plate of solid metal constituting a frame or rim of a medallic character surrounding one or more pictures produced by photography.

DOUGLASS F. MALTBY.V lVitnesses:

S. W. KELLOGG, CALVIN H. CARTER. 

